SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs
Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), 2026
SPARC separates visual perception from reasoning, enabling independent allocation of inference-time computation to each stage.
Recommended citation: Niccolò Avogaro, Nayanika Debnath, Li Mi, Thomas Frick, Junling Wang, Zexue He, Hang Hua, Konrad Schindler, Mattia Rigotti. (2026). "SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs." Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06566